The phrase "absolves us from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing the removal of responsibility or guilt from a person or group.
Example: "The new policy absolves us from any liability in case of accidents."
Alternatives: "exempts us from" or "relieves us of".
As such, it absolves us from the conscious burden of building a common world, that work which is otherwise, at least in part, committed to politics.
It is convenient for the west to blame Russian conspiracies because it absolves us from having to take a sharper, harder and more self-critical look at where we have failed.
Labelling them in this way absolves us from having to acknowledge that no child is born "evil" but any child can quickly become socialised into doing awful things – and seeing such behaviour as "normal" – if the only thing that has characterised their upbringing has been abuse and neglect.
Nostalgia simplifies us, absolves us from being smarter and knowing better.
In a psychological process that two Stanford professors call "moral credentialing," our condemnation of the Chinese absolves us from addressing the violence against animals here at home.
Scars are often catalysts for fighting against the norm, while unblemished skin absolves us from maturity and ageing, and can perpetuate do-gooder hubris. .
Take us back, Britain, and absolve us from this intransigence as John Kerr did in Canberra!
"Or celebrate that he uses it to get around and stay very intellectually engaged?" To point out that disabled people can live satisfying lives doesn't absolve us from doing our best to remain healthy.
Nor does it absolve us from taking time to ask ourselves some hard but basic questions: Is it O.K. to watch, and take intense pleasure from, a game that is so hazardous to its players?
It does not absolve us from trying".
But for many of us, those acts absolve us from any further responsibility.
